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Ms. Smartarse
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"That lady should learn [to book ahead] because we don't live in communist times anymore. In those days it was different - you could just walk in off the street. We'd have a line of clients sitting waiting. We'd fix them up, put them under the dryer, and let them gossip for an hour."
— Apr 17, 2023 07:09AM
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Ms. Smartarse
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Rāzvan's response is less easy to fathom, because he has acquired that ubiquitous, strangulated, mid-Atlantic speech pattern, wherein every utterance ends in a chilled-out, rock-star gasp. It sounds not so much American, as Americroak, presumably because life is one long drag, sometimes on a joint, perhaps.
— Apr 15, 2023 07:45AM
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Ms. Smartarse
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"Will [the package] reach you ok? Won't there be problems at the Post Office in Romania?"
"No," I reply, "now that we're in the EU, all EU mail is delivered to our doors. Or so I've heard."
Yeah.... no! This book was first published in 2012, and I've yet to see the postman/woman deliver any packages.
— Mar 31, 2023 01:55PM
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"No," I reply, "now that we're in the EU, all EU mail is delivered to our doors. Or so I've heard."
Yeah.... no! This book was first published in 2012, and I've yet to see the postman/woman deliver any packages.
